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BERTRAM HOUSE MUSEUM Gardens Cape Town

editor — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:04:00 +0000

In the dining room at the front of the house, by the front door, new wallpaper was matched to Georgian wallpaper for the perfect fit tram House was built in about 1820, at a time when brick houses were fashionable, Britain was in control of the Cape of Good Hope, and a more civilizing attitude to life prevailed. In September 1800, Robert Semple, a Scottish-American merchant who lived briefly in the city, published his impressions of life here, recording that ‘the English… are everyday improving and beautifying the town. Nowhere are the refinements of the day more evident than in

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OLD TOWN HOUSE Greenmarket Square Cape Town

editor — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:14:00 +0000

Portrait of a Woman by Frans Hals. This significant portrait, albeit of a person whose identity is unknown, is the highlight of the Michaelis Collection. It introduces a note of realism to the portraiture on view here. Her ruddy face and simple outfit – with not a shred of flattery between them – are hallmarks of the painter’s later style. Aje at the Old Town House states: ‘This building was erected in 1755 as a Burger Watch House, and was used in succession by the Burger Senate and Municipality of Cape Town until 1905. It was given by the city

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